In the Volume: My Life in Film and TV
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 29th. 2022
Readers’ Magnet Book Confab
Tribeca NY
Hyde-White will be reading excerpts from his book "In the Volume: My Life in Film and TV" and grace an interview with ReadersMagnet between 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 29, 2022.
Experiencing film and television before the development of modern video delivery and imaging is beyond the imagination of today’s younger generation. Memoirs, like the one from actor and producer Alex Hyde-White, are substantial accounts of repainting what it was like to be on screen before the turn of the century.
The original Fantastic Four film star Alex Hyde-White is happy to announce on Twitter that he will be joining the ReadersMagnet Book Confab in Tribeca, New York on October 29, 2022. He is one of the celebrities from Hollywood who find writing a good way to go beyond the camera. Hyde-White is an actor and producer who signed with Universal Pictures in 1978 as one of the last “contract players” in Hollywood, in a group that included Lindsay Wagner, Andrew Stevens, Gretchen Corbett, and Sharon Gless.
In The Volume
Foreword
Thru the years I have received many letters from fans of certain shows, with Fantastic Four and Biggles: Adventures in Time leading the tally, as they both have a healthy fan base. That, of course, is ironic because they are obscure films that most people have never heard of.
Oh, that is an actor’s life, all right, where matters of value are always subjective, and relative as unless you work there’s not much to value and when you’re working, well, then you can value the film any way you want. To us, our work is important. Therefore, the occasional requests for interviews would come in. Being asked to comment on working with Peter Cushing, for instance, is an obvious example, as he was a dear man as well as being an important actor in the canon of 20th Century British Film. So, in the early 2000’s I found myself writing several, similar, versions of the same story, as it’s hard to comment about someone else without commenting on yourself. Regardless, those interviews seemed to satisfy the chronicler, journalist, or independent author, and they satisfied me.
I found I rather enjoyed the process. Never having been a writer, in the Hollywood sense of a dedicated, disciplined working writer, I knew I could “collaborate” quite well and, also, fancied myself a good producer – witness the two-indie films we produced, “Pursuit of Happiness,” and “Three Days of Hamlet”.
What follows is a Question and Answer from one such chronicler, as it was conducted circa 2013. I am using it as a Foreword to what I hope will be an entertaining look back at my life in film.
In The Volume: My Life in Film and TV is released now through Archway of Simon and Schuster
About “In The Volume”
Foreword
Thru the years I have received many letters from fans of certain shows, with Fantastic Four and Biggles: Adventures in Time leading the tally, as they both have a healthy fan base.
That, of course, is ironic because they are obscure films that most people have never heard of. Oh, that is an actor’s life, all right, where matters of value are always subjective, and relative as unless you work there’s not much to value and when you’re working, well, then you can value the film any way you want. To us, our work is important. Therefore, the occasional requests for interviews would come in. Being asked to comment on working with Peter Cushing, for instance, is an obvious example, as he was a dear man as well as being an important actor in the canon of 20th Century British Film. So, in the early 2000’s I found myself writing several, similar, versions of the same story, as it’s hard to comment about someone else without commenting on yourself. Regardless, those interviews seemed to satisfy the chronicler, journalist, or independent author, and they satisfied me.
I found I rather enjoyed the process. Never having been a writer, in the Hollywood sense of a dedicated, disciplined working writer, I knew I could “collaborate” quite well and, also, fancied myself a good producer – witness the two-indie films we produced, “Pursuit of Happiness,” and “Three Days of Hamlet”.
What follows is a Question and Answer from one such chronicler, as it was conducted circa 2013. I am using it as a Foreword to what I hope will be an entertaining look back at my life in film.